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In 1915 there were two different editions of the Campeonato Paulista. One was organized by the Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos (APEA) while the other one was organized by the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball (LPF).

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Brazil
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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. As the worlds fifth-largest country by area and population, it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language. Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to wildlife, a variety of ecological systems. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing in 1500 of explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who claimed the area for the Portuguese Empire. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808, when the capital of the empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, in 1815, the colony was elevated to the rank of kingdom upon the formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. Independence was achieved in 1822 with the creation of the Empire of Brazil, a state governed under a constitutional monarchy. The ratification of the first constitution in 1824 led to the formation of a bicameral legislature, the country became a presidential republic in 1889 following a military coup détat. An authoritarian military junta came to power in 1964 and ruled until 1985, Brazils current constitution, formulated in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic. The federation is composed of the union of the Federal District, the 26 states, Brazils economy is the worlds ninth-largest by nominal GDP and seventh-largest by GDP as of 2015. A member of the BRICS group, Brazil until 2010 had one of the worlds fastest growing economies, with its economic reforms giving the country new international recognition. Brazils national development bank plays an important role for the economic growth. Brazil is a member of the United Nations, the G20, BRICS, Unasul, Mercosul, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, CPLP. Brazil is a power in Latin America and a middle power in international affairs. One of the worlds major breadbaskets, Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years and it is likely that the word Brazil comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology red like an ember, formed from Latin brasa and the suffix -il. As brazilwood produces a red dye, it was highly valued by the European cloth industry and was the earliest commercially exploited product from Brazil. The popular appellation eclipsed and eventually supplanted the official Portuguese name, early sailors sometimes also called it the Land of Parrots. In the Guarani language, a language of Paraguay, Brazil is called Pindorama

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Association football
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies making it the worlds most popular sport, the game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal, players are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play, unless they are goalkeepers. Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, the team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, the Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football, the first written reference to the inflated ball used in the game was in the mid-14th century, Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word soccer was split off in 1863, according to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford -er abbreviation of the word association. Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. People in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand use either or both terms, although national associations in Australia and New Zealand now primarily use football for the formal name. According to FIFA, the Chinese competitive game cuju is the earliest form of football for which there is scientific evidence, cuju players could use any part of the body apart from hands and the intent was kicking a ball through an opening into a net. It was remarkably similar to football, though similarities to rugby occurred. During the Han Dynasty, cuju games were standardised and rules were established, phaininda and episkyros were Greek ball games. An image of an episkyros player depicted in low relief on a vase at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens appears on the UEFA European Championship Cup, athenaeus, writing in 228 AD, referenced the Roman ball game harpastum. Phaininda, episkyros and harpastum were played involving hands and violence and they all appear to have resembled rugby football, wrestling and volleyball more than what is recognizable as modern football. As with pre-codified mob football, the antecedent of all football codes. Non-competitive games included kemari in Japan, chuk-guk in Korea and woggabaliri in Australia, Association football in itself does not have a classical history. Notwithstanding any similarities to other games played around the world FIFA have recognised that no historical connection exists with any game played in antiquity outside Europe. The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England

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Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
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Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, commonly referred to as Flamengo, is a Brazilian sports club based in Rio de Janeiro. The club was established in 1895, although it did not play its first official game until 1912 and its traditional playing colors are red and black hooped shirts with white shorts and red and black hooped socks. The team achieved the most prestigious accolade in South American football when they defeated Cobreloa 2–0 in the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to become champions of South America and they subsequently became known as the Geração de Ouro, or the Golden Generation. That same year, Flamengo became world champions after defeating Liverpool 3–0 in Tokyo. Flamengo is the most popular team in Brazil, with over 39.1 million supporters as of 2010, the club has long-standing rivalries with nearby neighbors Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama. There is also a rivalry with Atlético Mineiro. Flamengo was founded on 17 November 1895 as a club by José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha, Mário Spindola, Nestor de Barros, Augusto Lopes, José Félix da Cunha Meneses. The group used to gather at Café Lamas, in the Flamengo neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Rowing was the elite sport in Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century. The young men hoped that forming a club would make them popular with the young ladies of the citys high society. They could only afford a used boat named Pherusa, which had to be rebuilt before it could be used in competition. The team debuted on October 6,1895 when they sailed off the Caju Point, from the Maria Angu beach, however, strong winds turned over the boat and the rowers nearly drowned. They were rescued by a boat named Leal. Afterwards, as the Pherusa was undergoing repairs, the boat was stolen, the group then had to save up money to buy a new boat, the Etoile, renamed Scyra. On the night of 17 November, the group, gathered at Nestor de Barross manor on Flamengo beach, founded the Flamengo Rowing Group and elected its first board, the name was changed a few weeks later to Clube de Regatas do Flamengo. The founders also decided that the anniversary of the foundation should be celebrated on 15 November, so as to coincide with the Day of the Republic. Flamengo only embraced football when a group of dissatisfied players from Fluminense Football Club broke away from that club following a dispute with its board, the players decided to join Flamengo because Borgerth, the teams captain, was also a rower for Flamengo. Admittance of the new members was approved on 8 November 1911, a motion against the club taking part in football tournaments was defeated, and the members assembly officially created the football team on 24 December,1911. The new team used to train on Russel beach, and gradually gained the support of the locals, the first official match was played on 3 May 1912 and is, to this day, the most spectacular victory of the club, as the team defeated Mangueira 16-2

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Brazil national football team
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The Brazil national football team represents Brazil in international mens association football. Brazil is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation, the body for football in Brazil. They have been a member of the FIFA since 1923 and member of the CONMEBOL since 1916, Brazil is the most successful national football team in the FIFA World Cup with five championships,1958,1962,1970,1994 and 2002. Brazil is the national team to have played in all World Cup editions without any absence nor need for playoffs. The seleção is also the most successful team in the FIFA Confederations Cup with four titles,1997,2005,2009 and 2013. They have also won their continental championship. Brazil is the national team to have won the World Cup on four different continents, once in Europe, once in South America, twice in North America. They also share with Spain a record of 35 consecutive international matches undefeated, a common quip about football is, Os ingleses o inventaram, os brasileiros o aperfeiçoaram. Brazil won 2–0 with goals by Oswaldo Gomes and Osman, though it is claimed that the match was a 3–3 draw, in contrast to its future success, the national teams early appearances were not brilliant. Other early matches played during that time include several friendly games against Argentina, Chile, however, led by the goalscoring abilities of Arthur Friedenreich, they were victorious at home in the South American Championships in 1919, repeating their victory, also at home, in 1922. In 1930, Brazil played in the first World Cup, held in Uruguay in 1930, the squad defeated Bolivia but lost to Yugoslavia, being eliminated from the competition. They lost in the first round to Spain in 1934 in Italy, Brazil were the only South American team to participate in this competition. After being victorious in a third South American Championship in 1949 Brazil first achieved prominence when it hosted the 1950 FIFA World Cup. The team went into the last game of the round, against Uruguay at Estádio do Maracanã in Rio. Uruguay, however, won the match and the Cup in a known as the Maracanazo. The match led to a period of national mourning, Brazil reached the quarter-final, where they were beaten 4–2 by tournament favourites Hungary in one of the ugliest matches in football history, known as the Battle of Berne. For the 1958 World Cup, Brazil were drawn in a group with England and they beat Austria 3–0 in their first match, then drew 0–0 with England. Before the match, coach Vicente Feola made three substitutions that were crucial for Brazil to defeat the Soviets, Zito, Garrincha and Pelé

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Esporte Clube Pinheiros
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The Esporte Clube Pinheiros, founded on 7 September 1899 by German immigrants as Sport Club Germânia, is a multi-sports and social club located in the Brazilian metropolis São Paulo. It has around 35,000 members, and its terrain comprises 170,000 m² in the well regarded quarter of Jardim Europa, the clubs assets are valued to be in excess of R$350 million. Historically, Germânia is the fourth oldest football club of Brazil and was part of the very first interclub match of the country, until 1915 the club had won twice the State Championship of São Paulo. Already early tennis grew popular amongst the members and the club should become one of the co-founders of the Tennis association of São Paulo. Football was basically abandoned with the advent of the professionalisation of the sport in the 1930s, during the course of World War II the club abandoned references to its German origin and in 1941 was renamed to Pinheiros. In later years water polo was very popular, in the 1970s João Carlos de Oliveira from Pinheiros held the world record in the triple jump. In more recent times the club has joined the elite in basketball and volleyball. César Cielo won Olympic gold in swimming, Germânia was twice the winner of the state championship of São Paulo, the Campeonato Paulista. The eminent player of the days of the club was Hermann Friese. Arthur Friedenreich, the first great star of Brazilian football, and widely acknowledged as one of the greats of the sport. After abandoning football in the early 1930s, due to the professionalisation of the game, already in 1932, the water sports department sent its first representative to the Olympic Games. Many more athletes from the club since represented Brazil in major sports events. The basketball and volleyball teams play in the top divisions. Beyond this, Pinheiros has departments for many more modalities, such as judo, gymnastics and these days, thousands of visitors pass daily through the clubs restaurants, bars, and other facilities. Also classical music and theatrical plays are regularly on the schedule, in the 2008–09 season, Pinheiros joined the new top Brazilian league, called the Novo Basquete Brasil, under the sponsored name Pinheiros/Sky. The team plays at the Ginásio Poliesportivo Henrique Villaboim, on the grounds in Jardim Europa. At the Olympic Games 1984 in Los Angeles Douglas Vieira won silver, in 2008 Leandro Guilheiro won a bronze medal in judo in the −73 kg class. In London 2012 Rafael Silva won the first bronze medal of the +100 kg category in judo – the tenth Olympic medal in the clubs history, the swimming section from Pinheiros is leading in Brazil

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Club Athletico Paulistano
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Club Athletico Paulistano –generally known as just Paulistano– is a sports and social club from the Brazilian metropolis São Paulo located in the quarter of Jardim América, close to the city. The club was founded on 29 December 1900 for the purpose of playing association football and its team was one of the early pioneers of the sport in Brazil and was considered the nationally leading side around 1920. To date, Paulistano remains the club that won the São Paulo state championship four consecutive times. In the course of the professionalisation of the sport in Brazil, since then, basketball has developed into the leading sport practised by Paulistano. In 1902 the first championship of São Paulo was held and the São Paulo Athletic club secured the first three titles, with Paulistano being runner up on each occasion,1905 was the year when Paulistano won its first championship after all. 1907 Paulistano made the Briton John Hamilton coach of the team, further championships followed in 1908 and 1913. In 1914 there was a schism in the football of São Paulo as the LPF was adverse to accepting new members, Paulistano joined the competing, generally accessible league under the auspices of the Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos. In 1917 the LPF should dissolve and integrate into the APEA, from 1916 to 1919 Paulistano won four consecutive championships, a feat hitherto unrivalled. In both cases Paulistano defeated Fluminense FC from Rio in the decisive match, in March and April 1925 Paulistano as first Brazilian side toured continental Europe, a trip that to date forms a major part of the clubs folklore. Arakén was described as Le Danger, another one of Paulistanos stars on this tour was Anfilogino Filó Guarisi, who later should play in Italy and win the World Cup of 1934. On their return to São Paulo there was another break up in the state football, most clubs opted for official professionalisation. Few clubs resisted, among them Paulistano, under the leadership of Paulistano, the amateur league Liga dos Amadores de Futebol was founded. The fellow footballing pioneers of SC Gêrmania and AA das Palmeiras joined the club from the APEA, Paulistano won three of the tournaments until 1929, and the SC Internacional, which joined in 1927, won in 1928 its second state title after 1907. However, amateur football proved not viable and with the dissolution of the league in early January 1930 Paulistano shut down its football operations. Paulistano initially played their games at Velódromo, located in São Paulo. The stadium had a capacity of 10,000 people. It was inaugurated on October 18,1901 for the practice of football, on December 29,1917, the club inaugurated a new stadium, named Estádio Jardim América. It had a capacity of 15,000 people, and was demolished in 1950

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Football in Brazil
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Association football is the most popular sport in Brazil. It is among the favorites to win the trophy every time the competition is scheduled, after Brazil won its third World Cup in 1970, they were awarded the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently. But 365 days before World Cup 2014 began, Brazils FIFA World Rank dropped to 22nd, Brazil has also won an Olympic Gold Medal, at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro. Pelé, arguably the greatest footballer ever, led Brazil to three of those championships, the governing body of football in Brazil is the Brazilian Football Confederation. Football was introduced to Brazil by a Scottish expatriate named Thomas Donohoe, the first football match played in Brazil was in April 1894, played on a pitch marked out by Donohoe next to his workplace in Bangu. In the 1870s, like many other British workers, a Scottish expatriate named John Miller worked on the construction project in São Paulo with other European immigrants. In 1884, Miller sent his ten-year-old son Charles William Miller to Bannister School in Southampton, England, team, and later into the county team of Hampshire. In 1888, the first sports club was founded in the city, in 1892, while still in England, Charles was invited to play a game for Corinthian F. C. a team formed of players invited from public schools and universities. On his return to Brazil, Charles brought some football equipment and he then taught the rules of the game to players in São Paulo. São Paulo Athletic Club won the first three years championships, Millers skills were far above his colleagues at this stage. He was given the honor of contributing his name to a move involving a flick of the ball with the heel Chaleira. The first match played by one of Millers teams was six months after Donohoes, Charles Miller kept a strong bond with English football throughout his life. Teams from Southampton and Corinthians travelled to Brazil to play against São Paulo Athletic Club, after a tour of Corinthians F. C. to Brazil in 1910, a new team in Brazil took on the name of Corinthians after a suggestion from Miller. The Brazilian Football Confederation was founded in 1914, but the current format for the Campeonato Brasileiro was only established in 1959, in 1988, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista celebrated playing the English side Corinthian-Casuals F. C at the Morumbi Stadium. To celebrate their shared history, Sócrates changed shirts to play alongside the English amateurs when the score was 1–0 in favour of the locals and this did not affect the score, however, although a largely-full stadium was cheering for a draw between the sides. In 2014, Brazil was one of the eight nations to take part in the first Unity World Cup, the team played the opening game with notable players such as Beto, Fabio Luciano and Carlos Luciano da Silva. Football is the most popular sport in Brazil, Football quickly became a passion for Brazilians, who often refer to their country as o País do Futebol. Over 10,000 Brazilians play professionally around the world, Football has a major effect on Brazilian culture

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SC Internacional (SP)
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Sport Club Internacional, commonly known as Internacional, was a Brazilian football team from São Paulo, São Paulo state. They competed several times in the Campeonato Paulista and won the competition twice, sport Club Internacional was founded on August 19,1899. They won the Campeonato Paulista for the first time in 1907, and in 1928, the club played 370 Campeonato Paulista games between 1902 and 1932. Internacional, due to difficulties, merged with Antarctica Futebol Clube in 1933. Internacional played their games at Estádio da Floresta. The stadium had a capacity of 2,000 people. Campeonato Paulista, Winners,1907,1928 Runners-up,1906,1929

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Campeonato Mineiro
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Campeonato Mineiro is the state football league of the state of Minas Gerais and is controlled by the Minas Gerais Football Federation FMF. The history of Campeonato Mineiro can be divided into two parts, before and after the construction of the Mineirão, in September 1966, the Mineirão is the biggest soccer stadium of Minas Gerais and it is located in Minas Gerais state capital, Belo Horizonte. Atlético is the most successful team in the competition, having won 43 championships as of 2015, as with many other Brazilian football state leagues, the Campeonato Mineiro is much older than the Brazilian League itself